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The impact of the August 2021 earthquake in Haiti: Evidence from the social registry’s shock module

This publication examines recently collected data from Haiti’s social registry new shock module to measure the scale of the August 2021 earthquake’s impact on households and assess the adequacy of the relief response.
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Pacific maritime transport systems: Hazard exposure technical note

This Technical Note aims to assist technical specialists, client country teams, and donors, to identify needs and priorities for more detailed, site-specific risk studies.
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Exploring interactions between socioeconomic context and natural hazards on human population displacement

This publication shows explainable machine learning techniques can be employed to model and understand internal displacement flows and patterns from observational data alone.
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Nature-based solutions infrastructure: How natural infrastructure solutions can address sustainable development challenges and the triple planetary crisis

A new report from the UN Environment Programme, UNOPS and the University of Oxford highlights the contributions of nature-based infrastructure solutions to sustainable development, climate action and biodiversity.
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Climate adaptation target setting

The new Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) Climate Adaptation Target Setting guidance aims to help banks accelerate their efforts on managing climate-related impacts and financing climate adaptation.
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Taking stock of business efforts to adapt to climate change

The paper describes the actions that large global businesses are taking on adaptation, what is driving these actions and the barriers they face to doing more.
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COP28: Loss and damage – the vital arguments

This report summarizes AR6 Working Group II findings, enabling them to be translated into actionable information for national and regional policy-makers.
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Effective communication of coastal flood warnings: Challenges and recommendations

This publication delivers a review investigation of the current CFWs in the USA and Canada based on their setup and dissemination, and a case study of two representative coastal flooding events.

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